On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:37:41 +0000 (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote :
>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>> John Marsland wrote:
>>>>> I am having no luck compiling R-2.0.1 on a Windows XP platform. I have not
>>> had these problems when compliling previous versions of R.
>>>>>> I've installed all the recommended software and tools. But I cannot get
>>> round this error message:
>>>>>> make
>>> make[1]: `Rpwd.exe' is up to date.
>>> make -f Makefile.docfiles
>>> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `docfiles'.
>>> -------- Building ../../../library/base/R/Rprofile from
>>> ../../library/profile/Common.R
>>> ../../library/profile/Rprofile.windows--------
>>> mkdir -p ../../../library/base/R
>>> cat: not found
>>>> cat should be among the tools, looks like Duncan's latest release of
>> tools.zip is missing cat (and I have tested the new release by overwriting
>> older files, so I haven't noticed at least one file is missing this time).
>>It is in the list mentioned in INSTALL, which is worth checking....
I accidentally put "cal" in instead of "cat"; it was fixed just
yesterday.
Duncan Murdoch